Sobre o que não falamos
On What We Don’t Talk About
by Ana Cristina Braga Martes
Editora 34 2025
200 pages
14×21 cm
Combining her experience as a sociologist with a keen ability to observe human relationships, Ana Cristina Braga Martes creates a unique kind of formative novel.
A girl who has never met her parents, raised by her grandparents in a house surrounded by secrets, during the years of Brazil’s military dictatorship. This is the setting for this beautiful coming-of-age novel about a girl that struggles to uncover the mystery of her parents, as well as Brazil’s political history and her own identity. With rare psychological sensitivity and narrative talent, the author intensely explores the protagonist’s challenges and struggles. The “girl” is not a girl anymore but not a woman yet. Her Lebanese and Italian legacies make her not white, but not black either. She’s almost, and she doesn’t like to be almost.
Rights available: World
Represented in collaboration with MTS Agência
Ana Cristina Braga Martes is a sociologist. In 2019, she left the academic work to dedicate herself entirely to literature. She holds a degree in Social Sciences from UNESP/Araraquara and a PhD from the University of São Paulo (USP), part of which she completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was a visiting researcher at Boston University and conducted postdoctoral studies at King’s College, University of London. She has published and edited numerous academic articles and books both in Brazil and abroad. Her first work of fiction, A origem da água (Confraria do Vento, 2019), marked her transition to literature. She is currently a columnist for Pessoa magazine and a contributor to Rascunho newspaper and Quatro Cinco Um magazine.
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